{"id":18544,"date":"2025-02-08T07:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/gm-demands-jack-cooper-unload-all-vehicles-due-to-concerns-over-intense-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T07:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:06:41","slug":"gm-demands-jack-cooper-unload-all-vehicles-due-to-concerns-over-intense-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/gm-demands-jack-cooper-unload-all-vehicles-due-to-concerns-over-intense-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"GM demands Jack Cooper unload all vehicles due to concerns over \u201cintense\u201d negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>General Motors has issued a temporary stop of all its vehicle shipments due to \u201cintense\u201d contract negotiations with its longstanding auto hauler partner, Jack Cooper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A plant employee at General Motors Bowling Green Assembly Plant in Kentucky told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/money\/cars\/general-motors\/2025\/02\/07\/gm-jack-cooper-stop-shipping-vehicles\/78305425007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Detroit Free Press<\/a> that he \u201cstood there and saw them unload 50 cars from the trucks,\u201d that had just been loaded after the stop order was given by GM.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThey have never done that before,\u201d the employee said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GM is currently in \u201cintense\u201d negotiations with Jack Cooper over a new contract. The company has issued the temporary stop out of an \u201can abundance of caution\u201d over the negotiations. GM is attempting to mitigate any potential risk to their vehicles, which are still being hauled across the country by Jack Cooper, should the negotiations take a negative turn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The contract negotiation comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/teamsters-issue-statement-on-fords-jack-cooper-contract-cancellation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ford Motor Company cancelled its contract with Jack Cooper<\/a> in January, forcing the trucking company to seek more money from its existing customers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJack Cooper Transport has been a preferred supplier to GM for decades. We are negotiating in good faith with their management team and private equity lender, Cerberus Capital Management. We hope to reach a fair resolution that permits GM to run our business responsibly and serve our customers while allowing (Jack Cooper) to continue operating as an ongoing business and employer,\u201d said GM spokesman Kevin Kelly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are relying on their previous statement that they are honoring their contract with Jack Cooper,\u201d said Jack Cooper spokeswoman Jennifer Holdsworth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/gm-demands-jack-cooper-unload-all-vehicles-due-to-concerns-over-intense-negotiations\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors has issued a temporary stop of all its vehicle shipments due to \u201cintense\u201d contract negotiations with its longstanding auto hauler partner, Jack Cooper.\u00a0 A plant employee at General Motors Bowling Green Assembly Plant in Kentucky told Detroit Free Press that he \u201cstood there and saw them unload 50 cars from the trucks,\u201d that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}